'All Around the Hospital' cookbook promises great-tasting recipes

December 08, 2003

GAYLORD - All jokes about hospital food aside - the Otsego Memorial Hospital (OMH) Auxiliary recently solicited all OMH staff and Auxiliary members to contribute their favorite recipes for a cookbook, "All Around the Hospital."

The cookbook, slated for a publication date of early February, will feature more than 1,300 recipes and sell for $20. According to OMH Auxiliary member Margaret Albert, anyone who prepays for a copy of the cookbook at the hospital gift shop by Dec. 15 will receive $1.50 off the regular price and a handmade Christmas ornament.

"All of the money we raise from the sale of the cookbooks will go right back into the hospital," noted Albert who said with the upcoming OMH building project next year the hospital's "wish list" has been steadily growing.

To encourage recipe submissions Albert said a good-natured competition between the auxiliary and OMH departments was held to see who could submit the most recipes. By a slim margin the OMH Auxiliary beat out the surgical department for first place and the x-ray department was third in number of recipes submitted.

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Albert said Pizza Tonite, Gaylord Cinema West, and the Alpine Chocolat Haus all contributed prizes for the contest.

To pre-order a copy of the "All Around the Hospital" cookbook call the OMH gift shop at 731-2100.